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Vosges
Coat of arms of the Vosges department
Location
Administration
Department number:88
Region: Lorraine
Prefecture:Épinal
Subprefectures:Neufchâteau
Saint-Dié-des-Vosges
Arrondissements:3
Cantons:31
Communes:515
President of the General Council:Christian Poncelet
Statistics
PopulationRanked 60th
 -1999380,952
Population density:65/km
Land area:5874 km
French Land Register data, which exclude estuaries, and lakes, ponds, and glaciers larger than 1 km.
Vosges (IPA: [voːʒ]) is a French department, named after the Vosges mountain range.

History

The Vosges department is one of the original 83 departments of France, created on March 4, 1790 during the French Revolution. It was made of territories formerly part of the province of Lorraine. In German, it is referred to as Vogesen and in Italian as Vosgi.

In 1793 the independent principality of Salm (town of Senones and its surroundings), enclosed inside the Vosges department, was annexed to France and incorporated into Vosges. In 1795 the area of Schirmeck was detached from the Bas-Rhin department and incorporated into the Vosges department. The Vosges department had now an area of 6,127 km² (2,366 sq. miles) which it kept until 1871.

In 1794 the Vosges was the site of a sizeable battle between the forces of Revolutionary France and the Allied Coalition. See Battle of the Vosges.

The Place des Vosges in Paris was so renamed in 1799 when the department became the first to pay the new Revolutionary taxes.

After the French defeat in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-1871, 4% of the Vosges department in the extreme northeast of the department were annexed to the German Empire by the Treaty of Frankfurt on the ground that the people there spoke Germanic dialects. The area annexed on May 18, 1871 corresponded to the canton of Schirmeck and the northern half of the canton of Saales. Schirmeck and Saales had been historically part of Alsace. These territories, along with the rest of Alsace and the annexed territories of Lorraine, became part of the Reichsland of Elsaß-Lothringen. The area of the Vosges department was thus reduced to its current 5,874 km² (2,268 sq. miles).

In 1919, with the French victory in the First World War, Alsace-Lorraine was returned to France by Germany at the Treaty of Versailles. However, Schirmeck and Saales were not returned to the Vosges department, but instead were incorporated into the recreated Bas-Rhin department.

Geography

The largest cities are Épinal, Neufchâteau and Saint-Dié-des-Vosges.

While the west part of the Vosges is flat sedimentary land (great for mineral waters), the east is closed by an old granite mountain (top is Grand Ballon, 1424m).

The Saône river rises at Vioménil, in the Vosges.

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The Roman fortified town of Grand, located 30km from Toul, has an amphitheatre and a temple to the Cult of Apollo.

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Épinal is a commune of northeastern France, préfecture (capital) of the Vosges département. The 1999 census population was 35,794 residents, who are known as Spinaliens.

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The commune has a land area of 59.24 km² (22.873 sq mi).
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Saint-Dié-des-Vosges

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Longitude 06° 57' 00" E
Latitude 48° 17' 06" N

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The 3 arrondissements of the Vosges department are:
  1. Arrondissement of Épinal, (prefecture of the Vosges department: Épinal) with 15 cantons and 251 communes. The population of the arrondissement was 228,115 in 1990, and was 225,898 in 1999, a decrease of 0.97%.

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The following is a list of the 31 cantons of the Vosges department, in France, sorted by arrondissement:

Arrondissement of Épinal (15 cantons)

  • Bains-les-Bains
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communes of the Vosges département in France.



INSEE code Postal code Commune
88001 88270 Les Ableuvenettes
88002 88500 Ahéville
88003 88140 Aingeville
88004 88320 Ainvelle
88005 88110 Allarmont
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